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Kamui Kobayashi put Toyota on provisional pole for the Le Mans 24 Hours by topping Wednesday night's first qualifying session by just under half a second from the best of the SMP Racing machines.
ALO is in 4th at the moment. I wonder how long Toyota will let Kobayashi lead the race before making the call for them to let ALO past. He's got this leg of the "Triple Crown" already, so maybe they'll let the true LM GOAT get the win he deserves.
Do you think Alonso will listen to Toyota if they tell him to hold his place? What does he care. Toyota won't help him in Indy and if he wants to get back to F1 next year they won't help him there either. Fred is gonna do what Fred wants to do. And that's always what's best for Fred.
He won Monaco twice. If he can win Le Mans again and then win twice at Indy he'll be the only double triple crown winner ever.
There have been a few NASCAR drivers in chump and lemons
Ken Schrader has raced with us several times. He loves it, usually comes out in March or December since he's doing real racing otherwise. We've also had Matt Tifft, before he made it to Cup though.
Of course I never saw those guys wheel it like @Tim2179 did on three tires in the rain.
Failure to finish race three at Thruxton marked the end of a trying weekend for British Touring Car Championship rookie Mark Blundell. After a tangle with Tom Chilton during qualifying - which left Chilton saying that the ex-Formula 1 driver should consider his place in the series - 27th in the opening race was as good as the rest of the meeting got.
Blundell, 53, is not the only F1 alumnus to be attracted to the BTCC. Most recently, Martin Donnelly helped Infiniti make its shortlived debut in the series in 2015. Before that, Johnny Herbert was signed by Team Dynamics to see out the 2009 season in the Honda Civic. And, most famously of all, the feature race at Donington Park in 1998, when 1992 F1 and '93 IndyCar champion Nigel Mansell rose from last to fifth, is still regarded by many as the greatest race in BTCC history.
i finished the first episode yesterday. it was HAM who sounds a little bit like he had a michael jackson upbringing where he didn't get to do normal stuff #blessed
i want them to do Piquet Sr who sounded batshit the last time i heard him speak
Piquet revealed that he had never been right after his accident at Imola in 1987. The crash caused him to lose some 80% of his depth perception and saw him secretly visit a hospital in Milan every two weeks through the season fearing that if he told his team they would not let him drive. He went on to say that he should have won the championship in 1986 and Mansell should have won in 1987, and that after 1987 he drove for the money as due to his condition he was no longer able to lead races from the front (each of his six wins following his Imola accident were inherited from others dropping out late).
Been listening to the behind the grid podcasts. Did Hulk and Alesi so far. Well worth the listen.
KUB's is great
From Brundle's podcast: I didn't know (or long forgot) that he almost had his foot amputated in Dallas '84 and he would never be able to left foot brake with it.
well congratulations to Alonso for winning the WEC championship. Much like F1, there was really no competition outside of the teammates in the sister car.
Most of the Beyond the Grid episodes have been at least solid and some are great. Kimi's was surprisingly good. My favorite so far has been Kubicas. Some really memorable things in there from his karting days with Lewis and his scheming he used to beat him.
06-13-2019, 08:26 AM
Re: The Official Formula 1 2019 Season Thread
